Let's Play A Murder ([personal profile] letsplayamod) wrote in [community profile] letsplayamurder2025-07-06 02:51 am
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Arrival

The moment is a bit different for everyone. Perhaps you were just minding your own business somewhere, others may have been in more... dire circumstances. Regardless, you were approached by a figure you can't quite picture, and they offered you an accord; in exchange for aiding them in the healing of a world lost to chaos, you would be granted something almost unheard of. Godhood.

And each of you said yes, more or less.

A blurry hand, shifting and rippling, reaches out to you. You feel a glow of warmth, unlike anything you've known before. As soon as you think you can describe it, you wake up.

The room you're in is plainly furnished, but it's about the size of a small flat. Plenty of room to stretch your legs. Don't get too comfortable, however. On the bedside table each room has is a letter; handwritten, it's wrapped around a bronze key. The lettering could only be described as the platonic ideal of 'neat and precise'.

If you are reading this, than our deal has been made. You've awoken in a place that will surely feel strange, so I want you to take some time to acclimate. Meet with the others. Breathe. I shall be along shortly.

-A


Whatever that means becomes more apparent as you step out of your housing and behold the world around you. The building you were in, and every piece of architecture you happen across, is blatantly pre-modern. Yet, something about it is otherworldly. Stone and iron and glass as far as the eye can see.

But above you was where the real questions were. It wouldn't be right to say the sun was shining on you now, nor would it be right to say it's the dead of night. Instead, the sky is a hazy mixture of both, wrapped in suffocating storm clouds that are threatening rain. Everywhere you look, into the horizon, it's the same.

Welcome home. Take your time and explore. Nobody ever said godhood was easy.
murchada: (002)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-07-08 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, what else is new?

[she pauses. considers.]

...Sorry. That's personal experience talking, maybe you've had a better track record. Shouldn't be projecting my own stuff.
atu709: (but the stones are laid)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-08 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, believe me, I'm very much used to going... off-book, so to speak. So-called Godhood is a new wrinkle, though, and I was hoping to learn something here but. Alas.
murchada: (002)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-07-08 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah... The god thing is new. Though, uh.

...Do you feel any different? Because I feel the same, honestly.
atu709: (to the elements)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-08 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Not particularly. Perhaps the qualifications are looser than you'd expect?
murchada: (027)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-07-08 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess. I thought I'd feel at least a little godly or grand or something?

Might be better, though. That sort of power usually goes to people's heads...
atu709: (to the elements)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-09 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, certainly. Kings and queens especially tend to get very... grandiose about it very quickly once you give them the throne.
murchada: (034)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-07-09 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah... Yeah, that does feel about right.

[she doesn't have a lot of kings or queens to compare to. but she can think of at least one she met that's uh

hm]


Down to earth is probably... better.
atu709: (but no one gave up a rib for me and mine)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-15 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly. I wouldn't mind a sort of... God Manual, though, used as I am to figuring things out on my own.
murchada: (002)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-07-15 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that'd be nice. A nice little step by step guide would make the job much easier...
atu709: (but the stones are laid)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-19 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
If only things were ever that easy.
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[personal profile] murchada 2025-07-19 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
It would be nice, right? "Here's everything you need to do and how to do it, and it's all going to work out perfectly."

It'd be like a dream come true.